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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Medway Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Medway website
7,083 approved · 1,605 refused · 831 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land To The East Of Mierscourt Road / South Of Oastview Rainham Kent ME8 8JF
Received 7 Sept 2017BP Oil UK Limited Aviation Fuel Terminal Grain Road Isle Of Grain ME3 0HA
Received 8 Sept 2017Dormers 3 Upper Luton Road Luton Chatham ME5 7BG
Received 8 Sept 2017Land Adjacent To 1 Rowland Avenue Gillingham Kent ME7 3DL
Received 7 Sept 201711 Lillymonte Drive Rochester ME1 3EX
Received 8 Sept 201786 Chart Place Parkwood Gillingham ME8 0LW
Received 8 Sept 2017Bloors Place 542 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TP
Received 8 Sept 201727 Barncroft Drive Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3TJ
Received 7 Sept 20171 Fourwents Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JX
Received 7 Sept 201752 Broadview Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DE
Received 7 Sept 2017201 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HT
Received 8 Sept 2017Unit 4 5 And 6 Ambley Road Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0PU
Received 7 Sept 2017Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 7 Sept 2017Land Adjacent To 33-40 Woolaston Close Gillingham Kent ME8 9SH
Received 7 Sept 2017152 Kingston Crescent Lordswood Chatham ME5 8YY
Received 6 Sept 2017Orchard Bungalow Station Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RU
Received 6 Sept 20173 Wallace Road Rochester ME1 2SZ
Received 7 Sept 2017191 Sturdee Avenue Gillingham ME7 2HH
Received 6 Sept 201773 Old Castle Walk Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9UW
Received 6 Sept 2017Bell Farm House Cooling Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UB
Received 6 Sept 201740 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RJ
Received 6 Sept 201752 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2DQ
Received 6 Sept 2017Vine Cottage 1 Balls Cottages Main Road Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LL
Received 6 Sept 20172 Readscroft Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9QG
Received 5 Sept 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Medway Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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